After having a few sources tell me not only last week but as well as the week prior, that Jerry Jones was trying to replace Wade Phillips as HC, I still believe he will at some point, but now I am told the chances of it happening this season have decreased significantly. Why? The first reason is now that Dallas is in its bye week, 48 hours after the Cowboys win in Houston it’s pretty clear that Jerry had his window of opportunity to remove anyone from his coaching staff the last two days. Secondly, if a new head coach had any hope of implementing even part of their system, now was the time with two weeks to prepare for Tennessee. Thirdly, the candidates that Jerry had on a short list rebuffed him otherwise we would be talking about a new HC in Dallas.

Many people close to the situation will tell you as long as Jerry feels the need to control the coaching staff that no proven winner at the head coaching level in the NFL will touch the Cowboys position. A few sources did tell me that they thought this was Jerry’s chance to prove the naysayers wrong this past Sunday night or Monday morning on that exact issue, but ultimately his failure to remove Phillips and possibly Jason Garrett will be the difference between winning and losing in the postseason if this team reaches the playoffs. I have had other sources from different media outlets personally e-mail me to say I was clearly on the right track with my rumours and that its something Jerry has explored on other occasions when it comes to Phillips. Memo to Jerry, controlling a coaching staff isn’t working in Oakland and has yet to in Dallas. One playoff win since your last Super Bowl title equals failure on your part.

Had Dallas lost on Sunday, everything I had written about last week would have gained even more steam but a win has calmed Jerry somewhat, although he is still not sold on this staff leading him to his 4th Super Bowl title, which has to be of concern for any fan in Texas. There are few people close to the Dallas organization that feel Phillips staff isn’t capable of winning a Super Bowl title but are willing to stay the course. Now a 4-4 record at the midway point of this season would have fans and media in a frenzy over this team.

It is more clear than ever that Bill Cowher did receive a phone call from Jerry to gauge his interest in possibly becoming the Cowboys next head coach. Cowher has now gone on record as saying he doesn’t like speaking with anyone about a teams HC position unless the job is vacant. That alone tells you he was approached because otherwise why would he make such a statement, prior to the NY Giants losing on Sunday. Some people are tying Cowher to the Giants job but he stated clearly on Sunday morning the quote I mentioned above.

Fan and media pressure did get back to the coaching staff as they finally turned to running the ball more than it did the two previous weeks. But when you listen to ex-Cowboy players both in TV and the radio business, you can hear it in their voice that they too believe Phillips will not lead this team to do the type of things they should be able to accomplish in the post season.

Sure there are Cowboys fans out there that think Phillips can lead them to the promise land, but they need to take off their rose coloured glasses! Phillips has yet to do so and hasn’t shown the ability to lead a team to even a Conference Championship. Until Jerry Jones loosens the reigns on what his coaching staff is allowed to do, we won’t be talking about a Championship in Dallas anytime soon.

Kevin Lee

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In response to “Will Jerry Jones win a Super Bowl with Wade Phillips as head coach?”

“It is more clear than ever that Bill Cowher did receive a phone call from Jerry to gauge his interest in possibly becoming the Cowboys next head coach. Cowher has now gone on record as saying he doesn’t like speaking with anyone about a teams HC position unless the job is vacant. That alone tells you he was approached because otherwise why would he make such a statement, prior to the NY Giants losing on Sunday. Some people are tying Cowher to the Giants job but he stated clearly on Sunday morning the quote I mentioned above.”

Cowher has to make this statement because of idiots like you who are superficially connecting him to head coaching positions that are not open, not because Jerry Jones made a phone call… Why on earth would you put an application in on a job that is not available?

Think what you want but Kevin has been right on other stories before. Do you stop going to ESPN or CBS when they post a soild rumour in which they think will happen but then it doesnt? Get a life buddy!

We’ll all these rumours are out there one has to realize in any professionaly sports and I have noted this before that clearly the Cowboys are not trading Romo, Barber, Jones, Williams, Witten etc etc etc so who do you blame?, it always comes down to the Coaching staff so any Cowboy fan would not say trade him/him or him, they will ultimately say get rid of the coaching staff and that will come from ANY level of fan who knows anything about professional sports. Very rarely although we do see it happen does a key player get traded when the team gets off to a bad start. All comments are valid but we have seen it many times in professional sports about rumours of people wanting to coach teams when there is not a vacant position available so whether we have anything concrete on Cowher or not, he is just saying the professional answer but there could be a line-up of people wanting to coach the Cowboys if Phillips does get the cowboy boot out of Dallas.

I belive that Wade Phillips is only in it for the money he don’t have the heart to lead the cowboys to any kind of a championship. I do belive if Jerry is trying to win a superbowl we need to let him go for the sake of the cowboy’s or we will be the most laughed at team and me being a hard core fan to be laugh at liker the 49er’s and, all the team’s in history that sucked. Jerry this is me begging you please take your loss and let him go.

At midseason of 2010, it appears that a few realities have become apparent. First off, the Dallas Cowboys are not hosting the Super Bowl in their new palatial stadium. Next, the race for first pick in the 2011 Draft is more hotly contested than we expected. Most importantly, there are a lot of coaches on the hot seat and many of them could be applying for unemployment benefits by season’s end. The good news for these coaches is they’ve already been paid a lot so they can use their savings. The bad news is that there are only 32 NFL Head Coaching jobs. Supposedly they could go to the United Football League or the Arena Football League rather than working the drive thru window at Flippy Burger…